Fred Chapman

Fred Chapman has worked in the field of historic preservation, cultural resource management, public archeology, and applied anthropology for the past 45 years. He teaches at the University of Wyoming, and previously served as the senior archeologist and Native American liaison for the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office.

The Bighorn Medicine Wheel and its surrounding landscapes on Medicine Mountain in the northern Bighorns make up one of the most important Native American sacred sites in the United States. Twenty years of compromise and conflict on how best to preserve the site involved several governmental agencies and elders representing 16 tribes.